Here's another ahem, not-so-weekly mini: a project I made last summer which I'm only now getting around to sharing, but speaking of crazy little characters made with wire, it felt to me like the perfect time to slip it in. These guys are not drinking coffee like the running man in my last post, but mixing their own drinks from self-serving pods, which I imagined would be the way to go if you were in a bar functioning like the internet.

Remember the TV I turned into a dance bar? I had come up with the idea after seeing fishes floating inside a few TVs in the window of a Quebec coffee shop. Looks like the concept is still popular... In any case I am sticking with bars. It's a bit more work, but my little people don't need to be fed when I'm gone on a trip.

This bar is the older brother of the internet café, the internet bar. What's that you'll ask? Well, like the internet which now tends more towards user-generated content, people make their own drinks in small stations dispersed around the room instead of getting them from a central bar. Rather than having a DJ select the music, everyone has the ability to set their request in a queue by connecting wirelessly to a central music library, which is the big sphere in the middle with the network inside (you see how it works, via the people's heads?). And, like the internet, there are ads, yes! On the back wall and on the characters themselves.

I try to use as much recycled parts and objects as possible but some stuff I find in a store. For this project, part of my materials (like the lighting and the character pieces) came from Michaels. See the hair on people's heads, it's actually meant to be a wedding decoration. I spend quite a bit a time browsing through the aisles, looking at every product as a possible piece of furniture or character, so much that I'm sure the sales people think I may be a little weird. But I can live with that.